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Alibey1917 Posted 7 years ago
Vocabulary
Baking slate
"[During the heat catastrophe across Europe in 2003], as in Chicago, the most lethal spaces were marginal, poor-quality apartments high up in the tenements beneath the dark, baking slate and asphalt roofs."
What does "baking slate" mean?
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) slate = material from which roof tiles are often made. Google "slate roof tiles".
- ) slate = material from which roof tiles are often made.
- Google "slate roof tiles".
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baking = very hot (this is figurative, not literal!)
slate = material from which roof tiles are often made.
Google "slate roof tiles".
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